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Rival or Partner? Microsoft Develops Its Own LLMs to Compete with OpenAI
Microsoft, one of OpenAI’s most powerful backers, is reportedly building its own large language models (LLMs) to compete directly with the company it has invested billions in. Internally, these ...Full Article
AI Today and Tomorrow Series #2: Artificial General Intelligence
In response to readers’ questions about AI, BigDATAwire asked me to write a series of columns on AI, a topic that is generating excitement and concern in the worldwide HPC community ...Full Article
Google Co-Founder Pushes AI Team to Work 60-Hour Weeks in AGI Race
The emergence of OpenAI’s ChatGPT ignited an AI race in late 2022, with tech giants scrambling to keep pace. Microsoft doubled down on its AI ambitions, Meta pushed its ...Full Article
China’s Pivot to Humanoid Robots Sparks a High-Stakes Global Showdown
The emergence of DeepSeek's R1 shook up the market, wiping more than $1 trillion from the U.S. stock market and sending shockwaves through the tech world. It sent AI ...Full Article
OpenAI Launches Operator to Help Users Automate Browser Tasks
OpenAI has released a research preview for a new AI agent that can take control of your computer’s browser and perform actions on your behalf. The tool can interact ...Full Article
OpenAI Sets Ambitious Course Toward Superintelligence
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, starts 2025 with a bold declaration for the future of artificial intelligence. According to Altman, OpenAI is now confident in its understanding of how ...Full Article
OpenAI Develops New AGI Benchmark to Assess Potential Risks of Advanced AI
As artificial intelligence systems grow more advanced, there is increasing concern over models capable of modifying their own code and enhancing their abilities without human oversight. Such AI agents, ...Full Article
Altman Returns Amid Swirl of Questions About Project Q-Star
Sam Altman’s wild weekend had a happy ending, as he reclaimed his CEO position at OpenAI earlier this week. But questions over the whole ordeal remain as rumors of ...Full Article
AI Is Not Sentient Yet. But That Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Useful in the Enterprise
Have large language models finally crossed the chasm and become self-aware? A Google researcher recently shocked the world by declaring that Google’s LaMDA has become sentient. Others in the ...Full Article
